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Supplemental Instruction – Anatomy and Physiology

Anna Seiders, a freshman in the College of Liberal Arts, is a fan of Purdue's Supplemental Instruction program.

"It helps a lot," Seiders said of the BIOL 203, "Human Anatomy and Physiology," session she attends.

Supplemental Instruction is a program offered by the Purdue Academic Success Center. Students enrolled in certain courses can meet two or three times a week, or once for each class lecture, to receive extra teaching. The same material that is covered in class is reviewed in the sessions.

The sessions seem to be popular with students. Seiders and about a dozen other students arrived early to the session because "if you arrive late, you don't get a chair."

Supplemental Instruction sessions are offered for certain 100 and 200 level math, engineering, management and science courses.

Additionally, the center provides test review sessions in some of the classes that are covered by Supplemental Instruction.

What is Supplemental Instruction?

Supplemental Instruction Training Manual

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